Jun 4, 2026 · 22 min · 11 segments
She's known around AccessAbility Officer as the AO Queen. As AO's Business Operations Manager, Marisa Reder has helped support blind and disabled professionals, accessibility testers, and apprentices…
Marisa RederGuestBee YangHostEllie AlvaradoHostI don't like change, um, and so I have to constantly be reminding myself to see what the newest thing is, to step outside my comfort zone.
Um, I'll take the path of least resistance, and sometimes you have to take the harder road in order to grow your skill set.
And so if you're a listener out there, I, I'm highly encouraging you-To do the same thing.
Take that harder road so that we can be better in the future, rather than just relying on the same old methodologies that have worked, but might be a little outdated.
I agree.
I have had some tougher experiences in my life where I think they, at the time, were really tough because they were just emotionally hard, and they were really not fun for me.
But ultimately, I think that they were a good thing, because they pushed me to really always try to find ways that I can be valuable.
Um, and I think it's, it's, it's born from being kind of insecure and incompetent in my own abilities, but if you leverage it in the right way, like if you use it to motivate you to do more, to make sure that you're relevant, to make sure that you're valuable, then you're approaching it from the right angle versus being like, "I, I'm not good enough.
I'm never gonna be good enough." Because if you tell yourself that, then you never will be.
I don't like change, um, and so I have to constantly be reminding myself to see what the newest thing is, to step outside my comfort zone.
Um, I'll take the path of least resistance, and sometimes you have to take the harder road in order to grow your skill set.
And so if you're a listener out there, I, I'm highly encouraging you-To do the same thing.
Take that harder road so that we can be better in the future, rather than just relying on the same old methodologies that have worked, but might be a little outdated.
I agree.
I have had some tougher experiences in my life where I think they, at the time, were really tough because they were just emotionally hard, and they were really not fun for me.
But ultimately, I think that they were a good thing, because they pushed me to really always try to find ways that I can be valuable.
Um, and I think it's, it's, it's born from being kind of insecure and incompetent in my own abilities, but if you leverage it in the right way, like if you use it to motivate you to do more, to make sure that you're relevant, to make sure that you're valuable, then you're approaching it from the right angle versus being like, "I, I'm not good enough.
I'm never gonna be good enough." Because if you tell yourself that, then you never will be.
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